For home-care & ABA agencies
The problem usually isn't recruiting — it's the first mile of hiring: the leaky stretch between "we need a caregiver" and "we have one who's trained, working, and not already looking around." That's where the money quietly walks out a side door. Bolt seals it.
Trusted by home-care and ABA organizations building the digital foundation for the first mile of care.
A true story
An owner we know spent last year celebrating 63 new caregivers. Her current roster? Around 70. A year of recruiting and a small fortune in onboarding, just to end up almost where she started.
She's not bad at her job. She's good. She'd just spent twelve months mostly bailing water.
In her head, 63 hires meant the machine was working. What it really meant was a year spent to stand still.
The cost
median caregiver turnover in 2024
Down from ~80% the prior year — three of four still leave.
to replace one caregiver, conservatively
All-in, often closer to $5,000.
of caregiver turnover happens in the first 90 days
Right after you paid to acquire her.
spent in a single year on ~55 backfills
Just to stand still.
Source: turnover and replacement-cost figures from Activated Insights (formerly Home Care Pulse), 2024 benchmarking report.
A familiar idea, applied differently
Bolt built its approach around the first mile of care — the pre-service work that decides everything downstream. Hiring has a first mile too, and it's where the money leaks.
Most agencies run it badly, which is why they run it so often: slow, leaky, held together with spreadsheets and good intentions. A broken first mile doesn't just cost you a hire — it costs you that same hire again months later.
It breaks in three places.
The 3 leak points
A good caregiver applies to five agencies from her phone on a break; whoever answers first usually wins her. Land it in a shared inbox checked "when things calm down" and she's already accepted elsewhere.
What it costs you
The candidate — and the price of finding someone just like her next month.
A W-4, an I-9, a license to verify, forms needing real signatures, a coordinator playing phone tag. Every day in limbo is a day she's still taking other agencies' calls.
What it costs you
Your most expensive losses — the ones you'd already done the hard work to land.
New hire feels like a stranger; texts go unanswered; she's not sure who to call. By week six she's back on Indeed.
What it costs you
57% of all turnover — right after you paid to acquire her.
How Bolt seals each leak
Wages are wages and the labor market is the labor market. What you can fix is the bleeding you're doing for no reason at all.
Applicant Tracking System
Every application in one place. Custom hiring stages, follow-up tracking, checklists — so a candidate never falls through.
Learn more →Built-in SMS
Text candidates the night they apply, request documents, send updates — all inside Bolt. No personal phone numbers, no missed handoffs.
Digital forms & e-signatures
100% digital application in under 5 minutes on any device. E-sign, secure document storage, automatic reminders.
Caregiver Portal
Real two-way messaging, notifications, and broadcast case openings to the whole roster at once.
Learn more →Unglamorous work — making sure the people you fought to hire don't slip out a side door you didn't know was open.
Up and running fast
In as little as 30 days
Guided setup, training, and support.
The calculator
Your numbers
Plug in what you know. Defaults are industry medians, not real figures.
The total you ran through hiring last year.
Industry median is around 75%.
All-in is often closer to ~$5,000.
What it looks like
Enter your hires to see the picture.
Start with how many caregivers you hired in the last 12 months. We'll do the rest.
Proof & trust
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Integration
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FAQ
Back to the 63
If you ran 60-some hires last year and your roster barely moved, your problem probably isn't recruiting — it's your first mile. Unlike the labor market, that part is yours to fix. Bring your own numbers; we'll walk through them together.